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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🦜 Tisserin pirate Olive-naped weaver 🇸🇳 #birdphotography #senegal

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Introducing #rstats coding to my 13yo daughter 😁! We build text encryption functions 🔐. Her secrets are safe !

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🎨 🦟 Beautiful illustration by Amedeo J. E. Terzi (buff.ly/rJpBWjq ) in Edwards' "Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region, Part III" (1942) #entomology #mosquitoes #taxonomy 🧪 🌍️ 🌐

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🌦️ main predictors of presence were meteorological factors (temp, atmo pressure, rainfall) 🌱 low (<3m) vegetation drives abundances, 🌳 more mosquitoes in urban parks and residential (with gardens) areas than in densely built areas. #rstats #randomforest #openscience

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It's mosquitoes all souls day... Some are visiting cemeteries.

A living mosquito in a collection box with pinned individuals

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

📸 This one is very beautiful 🤩. 🦟 Eretmapodites sp. (likely chrysogaster), Casamance, Sénégal 🇸🇳. All species in the genus are Afrotropical. #mosquito #entomology 🧪

An mosquito belonging to the Eretmapodites Genus with nice ornaments (yellow thorax, line of silvery scale from head abdomen, abdomen black with lateral patch of silvery scales)

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This article was peer-reviewed & recommended in @peercommunityin.bsky.social, a platform promoting free, transparent and open peer review before journal publication. We’re grateful to @jessieabbate.bsky.social and the reviewers for their constructive feedback!

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🦟 We model the impact of attractive, inert, and deterrent ITNs (insecticide-treated nets) on malaria transmission. Data & model: buff.ly/MD5xO99 Key result 👉 Attractive ITNs may reduce malaria transmission more effectively than deterrent ones, even under physiological or behavioral resistance.

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🦜Ploceus brachypterus 📣🇨🇵 Tisserin pirate 🏴‍☠️ 📣🇬🇧 Olive-naped weaver 📍 Ziguinchor, Sénégal 🇸🇳

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🚨 New publication! Our RCT in 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso & 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire shows that adding either non-pyrethroid indoor residual spraying (IRS) or intensive behaviour change communication (BCC) to LLINs reduces #malaria burden. In @lancetgh.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/S221... #GlobalHealth #VectorControl

First page of the article entitled "Efficacy of non-pyrethroid indoor residual spraying or intensive behaviour change communication in combination with long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria control in west Africa: a pragmatic, cluster-randomised, controlled trial"

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Spotted in the wild: 🐜 likely Camponotus sericeus 🤔 📍Casamance, Senegal 🇸🇳 #Entomology #Ants #Camponotus #Casamance #Senegal

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

📢 Offre de #thèse en modélisation écologique ! Diversité et distribution des #moustiques en #AfriqueDeLOuest 🌍🦟🌐 📍 #Sénégal 🎯 candidatures Sénégal et sous-région 📅 Poste à pourvoir rapidement ! 📎 buff.ly/o1Xi0H1 Merci de partager🙏 #Modélisation #Ecologie #IRD #Biodiversité #

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🧵2/ What’s inside? ✔️ calculate_Exp() — Compute hourly exposure ✔️ summarise_exposure() — Summarize exposure statistics daily or for a time window ✔️ plot_exposure() — Stacked exposure plot (net users) ✔️ plot_behaviors() — Dual-axis plot of human & mosquito activity

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🧵1/ Introducing ExpBites, a lightweight #rstats 📦 to analyze mosquito biting exposure according to hourly activities and locations of human and #mosquitoes. Built for modeling true expected #bednet efficacy.🦟⛺️ 📦 GitHub: buff.ly/tImDQdv 🎚️ Shiny app: buff.ly/t9oMOwv #malaria #anopheles

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

4156 new #chikungunya cases on #Reunion island (week 11). That is 44% higher than the 2888 cases the week before.

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

#Chikungunya epidemic on Reunion island. ~3000 confirmed cases and 2 deaths during week 10 (3-9 Mar.) #Aedes aegypti

Weekly number of Chikungunya confirmed cases on Reunion island (2025) showing an exponential trajectory. Data from the Regional Health Agency.

Map of Chikungunya cases on Reunion island during week 10 of 2025.

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🦟 The Anopheles gambiae Complex is more than a group of sibling species—it’s a key player in malaria transmission across Africa. With diverse ecologies and behaviors, its members adapt to unique habitats, making them formidable vectors of malaria parasites. 🌍 (4/4) #Malaria #VectorBiology

Picture of an anopheles gambiae
© IRD - Nil Rahola

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

... the last one, discovered in 🌍 La Lopé National Park 🐘 🐒 in Gabon 🇬🇦 and formally registered in 2024: A. fontenillei @nil-rahola.bsky.social , Paupy & Ayala 2024 ➡️ buff.ly/4fu6rpx ➡️ buff.ly/4fSvFxx (3/4) 🧵 #Entomology

Par FX — Lopé National Park river panorama.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10455724

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A. merus Dönitz 1902, A. melas Theobald, 1903, A. arabiensis Patton, 1905, A. quadriannulatus Theobald, 1911 , A. bwambae White, 1985, A. comorensis Brunhes, Le Goff & Geoffroy 1997, A. amharicus Hunt, Wilkerson & Coetzee 2013, A. coluzzii Coetzee & Wilkerson, 2013 and... 🥁 🥁 (2/4) 🧵

Geographic distribution of members of the A. gambiae complex. A: A. arabiensis (red); B: A. gambiae s.s.
(green); C: A. melas (Blue), A. merus (orange), and A. bwambae (cyan); D: A. quadriannulatus (former species A) (yel‐
low), A. amharicus (former A. quadriannulatus B) (magenta) and A. comorensis (cyan circle). In: Speciation in Anopheles gambiae — The Distribution of Genetic Polymorphism and Patterns of Reproductive Isolation Among Natural Populations Written By
Gregory C. Lanzaro and Yoosook Lee

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

📜 Bridging centuries of #Mosquito #Taxonomy 🦟 Sharing #Anopheles gambiae original description by Giles (1902). Extract below ⬇️ It is nominotypical for the Gambiae Complex that include 9 other sp. (1/4) 🧵 #Entomology #malaria 🧪 🔎 Explore the source document: ➡️ buff.ly/3ArZHJO

A screenshot of the original description of An. gambiae by Giles (1902)

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🙏 Let’s honor the legacy of the researchers and techs behind this milestone and the transformative impact of pyrethroids-treated nets on #globalhealth. I had the chance to meet F. Darriet and V. Robert, that were also prolific writers 📚 ⬇️, before their quiet retirement from @ird-fr.bsky.social .

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🔬 The 1983 study was the first field trial to show the impressive efficacy of permethrin-treated nets against malaria vectors, even when perforated. These findings (published in 1984) were pivotal in establishing insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) as a cornerstone of malaria prevention...

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🕰️ Insecticide-treated mosquito nets were sporadically tested from the 1930s, with limited success, until the late 1970s, when Hamon and Quélennec at WHO provided critical impetus for research into safer and more effective pyrethroids, setting the stage for Darriet et al.'s works...

Moustiquaire imprégnée d’insecticide à longue durée au Bénin
© IRD - Marc Egrot

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

⏰ Every morning at dawn (even weekends!), this beauty comes to tap on the window: Halcyon malimbica, the blue-breasted tree kingfisher (🇫🇷 Martin-chasseur à poitrine bleue). Unlike their English name suggests, Halcyoninae are not specialist fishers. 📍Casamance, #Senegal 🇸🇳. #Birds

Picture of a tree kingfisher taken from my window.

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

(2/2) 🇫🇷 In the official French translation by Edmond Barbier (1875), this passage takes on a bit more alarming tone ⚠️ 😅. Back to English: "A mere glance cast upon what the complete catalog of the future will be would be enough to forever shatter an entomologist’s rest." #Entomology #Darwin 🧪

Un simple coup d'œil, jeté sur ce que sera le catalogue complet de l'avenir, suffirait à détruire à jamais le repos d'un entomologiste.

Front page of the original French translation.

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

📜 Darwin’s wisdom for tropical entomologists 🦟 🦋 (1/2). In: "The Voyage of the Beagle" (1839), Chapter II: Rio de Janeiro: "It is sufficient to disturb the composure of an entomologist's mind, to look forward to the future dimensions of a complete catalogue." 🧵 #Entomology #Darwin 🧪

HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan. Reproduction of frontispiece by Robert Taylor Pritchett from the first Murray illustrated edition, 1890: HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan at Monte Sarmiento in Chile.

The cabinets of Europe can, as yet, boast only of the larger species from tropical climates... sufficient to disturb the composure of an entomologist’s mind, to look forward to the future dimensions of a complete catalogue.

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The (good!) reason why he published here: www.nature.com/articles/151...

WHEN eastern Europe has been devastated and its indigenous culture suppressed, it is particularly gratifying to find a band of refugee professors and lecturers combining to keep the stream of their learning from drying up. Polish Science and Learning (No. 2, February 1943, Oxford University Press) is the second of a series of booklets prepared by Polish scholars in Great Britain in collaboration with their British colleagues. An article by Charles Elton on “ The Changing Realms of Animal Life” is contributed as “something new towards maintaining the concept of international co-operation in science after the war is over”,

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This fruit picker, bought at the supermarket in Ziguinchor, Senegal 🇸🇳 , is a handy tool for collecting #mosquito larvae from large water bodies like rice fields and pond margins.

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